Word: obeying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here, as elsewhere in the Navy, we cannot question the decisions of our superiors. So, no matter what we think of any given decision it is our duty to obey. This foregoing of freedom of expression on our part is a necessary sacrifice that most of us may soon return to civilian life and that our way of life may endure...
...during the occupation Munk's voice has attacked the Nazis from his pulpit. He has written many a biting pamphlet distributed by the Danish underground. His last defiant gesture before his arrest came a few weeks ago when he flatly refused to obey the Nazi edict to cease prayers for the persecuted Norwegians. Wrote Munk: ". . . I intend to dis obey. . . . Danish clergymen take an oath on the Bible, but not yet to the Foreign Secretary. . . . I feel bound to my Norwegian brothers because they are . . . brothers in the faith. They fight for the ideals that I, too, have sworn...
...promptly ordered the "unconditional return" of all strikers. The Johnsville strikers did not obey. But when local U.A.W. leaders tried to spread the strike to Brewster plants at Long Island City, N.Y. and Newark, N.J., they found WLB's threat effective. Workers from the two Long Island City plants meeting in New York's Queensboro Arena, turned down an immediate strike call, voted instead to abide by the law calling for a 30-day cooling-off period. Next day, the Johnsville strikers went back, with nothing to show for their walkout except four days' lost production...
WORKING MEN AND WOMEN AT HOME-You'are a majority! Multiply your forces by organizing. Form fighting groups at the enterprises, in the villages, in the labor camps, in the universities, wherever you happen to be. Refuse to obey Hitler. Do not allow yourselves to be used as accomplices in the continuation of the war. Fight with all means available in conformity with your position in the state and economic life...
Then the Board ordered Lewis to resume wage negotiations with the operators under its jurisdiction. Lewis did not obey. Finally this week, 60 hours before his self-imposed strike deadline, he made a flat refusal...